i know people think that, hear that and think brown bags and yellow buses, but there is nothing that replaces the sensation of being in an historic place come as the net come the feeling feeling, touching it, sometimes even smelling it. that is what provides us the i keep losing my fib here. and -- >> host: we'll let you get that adjusted. i want to read this quote from your "don't know much about mythology" book. you write, one of the saddest things i have witnessed is how the innate and insatiable yourosty young children have about the world gets absolutely killed by the tedium of school. i also remember so well how myths saved one little by from that tedium. >> guest: true story. again, i like to tell true stories. remember being a child, sitting in school, watching -- we had that clock up on the wall. i would watch the clock tick towards 3:00, when we would get released, and i remember the only time that i felt -- not the only time but certainly one of the times that i felt some sense of real excitement was when our teacher would stop at the enof the day and she would read from "